[Scummvm-devel] MT-32 option causing crashes / silent exits in 1.3.0

[Max Horn]

Hi there,

we got several reports on the forums by now (and on the bug tracker) about people suffering from ScummVM crashing resp. silently exiting due to invalid MIDI settings, typically involving MT-32. Most of these users probably never selected MT-32 consciously. Rather, we changed ScummVM in some way that causes this.

I am sure that for every report we get, at least two other users give up in frustration. Veeery bad. :( And this issue is not new, either, we had reports on this before, I think. I really hope "somebody" will start working on fixes for master and for the apparently quite necessary 1.3.1.

So, in a nutshell: If the MT-32 emu is selected but not available (not compiled in, missing control ROM files, whatever), we should not silently exit. If we *must* exit, then only with an error dialog that explains the situation. Better, though, to use a fallback, as we used to do in the past.

I have some more stuff to say, but that's the core, and I don't want to scare off people with my overly-long emails :)


Cheers,
Max